How to handle differences, including theological diffrences?
What I called, 4 A’s method:
1. Address the issues as it is (vv1-3)
2. Address the truth (understand) (vv4-6)
3. Address different perspective (seeing f/ different perspective) (vv7-9)
4. Address truth in love
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The emphasis is on the feeding of 5000. But there are a whole bunch of other topics included in this lesson, should be good teaching for those interested.

EAT IT
“Feeding of the 5000”
Luke 9:10-17
10 When the apostles returned, they reported to Jesus what they had done. Then he took them with him and they withdrew by themselves to a town called Bethsaida, 11 but the crowds learned about it and followed him. He welcomed them and spoke
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12, February 2006
Dakota Community Church
Eat This
Introduction:
I have a little problem. I guess you could say it is a condition. I’m sure I’m the only one here who deals with this kind of a disorder.
I have a split personality.
- Someone criticizes my sermon.
- I get cut off in
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Many people today work in order to eat, but the Bible has another point of view. The Bible tell us that life is more than working so that we can eat. The Bible teachs us how to eat in order to work.

Work to Eat or Eat to Work?
2 Thessalonians 3:6-13
Introduction
I think it is safe to say tonight that none of us are financial wealthy or from old money. We are the working class. We are people who have to work in order to eat. We are the folks who live from paycheck to paycheck. Or if
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Why work? Work has meaning as a witness, as a way of focusing our efforts for the Kingdom. Look at the work of Christ, so that you do not lose motivation to work.

Is there anyone here today whose name is Rockefeller? No? Then maybe there is a member of the Kennedy family, other than Mrs. Currie – and I don’t think she is of the Hyannisport Kennedys? No one? Well, let me try someone else – the Sultan of Brunei, possibly the richest person in the world.
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Some Christians are strong and some are weak, so, the question is what should we do or not do to encourage each other in the FAITH?

“To Eat, Or Not To Eat—
That Is The Question”
Text: Romans, Chapter 14
Introduction.
Food, food! Everywhere is food! Food truly is something “big” in our lives, isn’t it? We come together and have food—and when we think about coming together, we think about having food—and when
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Usually when someone says this it's not met with much resistance from me. But when it comes to the bread of Jesus there are plenty of people who say, 'no thanks'.

LET'S EAT!
INTRODUCTION: Usually when someone says this it's not met with much resistance from me. But when it comes to the bread of Jesus there are plenty of people who say, 'no thanks'.
1) Who wants bread? (John 6:25-36)
In John 6, we see the story of when Jesus fed 5,000 plus with
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Jesus called His disciples to sit and eat and be a part of everyone's life including sinners and that made the religious people nervous and anxious. Follow me is the two words given to Levi and the same two words given to us.

Eating with sinners
Luke 5:27-5:32
Luke 5:27-5:32
Prayer-
Introduction-
We live in a day and age of un-surety. Un-surety that you may put your shoes on in the morning and the undertaker may take them off at the end of the day.
Bad things happen to good people everyday. God never
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Why the title Good Eats? It’s the title of a show on the Food Network in with host, Alton Brown. Brown is a culinary version of Bill Nye, the science guy. His goal is for us to capture a bit of the why that goes into the taste we all love. Now, look at what we call "the Lord’s prayer". The only
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LIVING BREAD
John6: 51I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Looking for life at its best. Look to Jesus
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A sermon for the 18th Sunday after Pentecost Proper12 The rich man and Lazarus

18th Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 21
Lectionary 26
September 30th
Luke 16: 19-31
Sermon
"Eat, Drink ?"
9* “There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
20* And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, full of sores,
21* who
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The early church "gathered together to break bread." Why was this activity so critical to them and what can it mean to us?

OPEN: There’s an old saying: “An army marches on… (its stomach).”
What that means is: if an army doesn’t feed its men it’s not going anywhere. Without food the troops eventually can’t march, they can’t maneuver, and they can’t fight.
So one of the logistical problems for armies has always
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We explore in this sermon an awesome revelation about prepared blessings, you may be in some bitter places but there is some honey waiting on you.

We don’t know how long Jonathon was in this situation: 6 hrs, a day, a week, a month.
We don’t know, but what we do know is that he was in the same situation as around six hundred other men.
But Jonathon decided that something wasn’t right, he decided that it was not right for the child of God to
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How many "fat" preachers do you know? Is that acceptable? Here’s a sermon that deals with that question.

Temperance In Eating
1 Samuel 4:10-18
10 So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and every man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter, and there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.
11Also the ark of God was captured; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and
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